Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I believe that Google wanted in-app purchases in Fortnite to go through Play Store so that Google would get 30%. And Epic wanted to setup their own in-app billing and keep it all.

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      7 months ago

      I’m sure they do want them to do that, the question is how is Google stopping them?

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        7 months ago

        By enforcing a rule that says apps on the app store cannot have an external paid app store. So that’s why you download FN on sideload instead of the store.

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      7 months ago

      So even if you download, purchase and install an app via a separate app store, Google still collects a commission!?